Craig Loftin:
In this addition to the burgeoning “whiteness studies,” Stokes considers the relationship between whiteness and heterosexuality by examining white supremacist books written between 1852 and 1915. He considers a wide range of books, including literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, and film to argue that conceptions of heterosexuality depend largely on concepts of white superiority, and vice versa. He uses anti-racist works of Black writers and activists to contextualize his discussion.
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